Deuteronomy 1:44

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.
  • Num 14:45 : 45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.
  • Num 21:3 : 3 The LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called Hormah.
  • Isa 7:18 : 18 At that time the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the LORD had handed them over?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Num 14:45
    81%

    45So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.

  • Josh 24:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.

    12I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.

  • Deut 1:43
    75%

    43I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.

  • Deut 1:45
    75%

    45Then you came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.

  • Deut 1:27
    75%

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Deut 7:20
    74%

    20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

  • Deut 1:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

    20Then I said to you,“You have come to the Amorite hill country which the LORD our God is about to give us.

  • Josh 24:8
    74%

    8Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered their land and I destroyed them from before you.

  • Gen 14:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

    7Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

  • Josh 2:10
    73%

    10For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.

  • Num 21:3
    73%

    3The LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

  • Amos 2:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.

    10I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites’ land as your own.

  • Deut 9:8
    72%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Deut 4:46
    72%

    46in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.(It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.

  • Deut 2:22
    72%

    22This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

  • Judg 1:34-36
    3 verses
    71%

    34The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

    35The Amorites managed to remain in Har Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily, the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.

    36The border of Amorite territory ran from the Scorpion Ascent to Sela and on up.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    71%

    10Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

  • Num 14:43
    71%

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”

  • Deut 2:12
    71%

    12Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the LORD gave them.)

  • Deut 31:4
    71%

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

  • Num 21:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.

    32Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

  • Exod 23:28
    70%

    28I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

  • Judg 1:17
    70%

    17The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. So people now call the city Hormah.

  • Deut 2:15
    70%

    15Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • Judg 6:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

    4They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

    5When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

  • Deut 1:4
    70%

    4This took place after the defeat of King Sihon of the Amorites, whose capital was in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, whose capital was in Ashtaroth, specifically in Edrei.

  • Deut 29:7
    70%

    7When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

  • Deut 20:17
    70%

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • Deut 25:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17Treatment of the Amalekites Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

    18how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    69%

    18The LORD sent you on a campaign saying,‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.’

  • Deut 11:5
    69%

    5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,

  • Deut 1:7
    69%

    7Head out and resume your journey. Enter the Amorite hill country, and into all its neighboring areas, including the rift valley, the hill country, the foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain– all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

  • Judg 11:23
    69%

    23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

  • Deut 1:34
    69%

    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • Josh 11:3
    69%

    3Canaanites came from the east and west; Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites from the hill country; and Hivites from below Hermon in the area of Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:23
    69%

    23The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir and annihilated them. When they had finished off the men of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another.

  • Exod 34:11
    69%

    11“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Exod 17:8
    69%

    8Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.

  • Judg 2:15
    69%

    15Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.